James, whistling a jaunty tune, polished his motorcycle. The afternoon sun glinted off the chrome. He'd been feeling invigorated lately, a deep satisfaction running through his veins. His marriage with Lisa was strong, their shared life full of joy. Everything was great.

He decided to go through old documents, finally getting around to filing his taxes. It was then he came across a bank statement. The account holder was Lisa, but the name was unfamiliar. He opened it, curiosity tingeing his emotions.

It held a remarkable amount of money. Then, he remembered how Lisa had been hinting about a trip to Japan. A warmth spread through his chest. He grabbed his keys and hopped in his car, heading to the florist.

Emotion: fulfilled

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.22 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.74

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion fulfilled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 fulfilled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the fulfilled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the fulfilled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.819
மகி0.415
happy0.397
grateful0.389
de0.385
Suppressed:
S-0.599
worse-0.465
C-0.460
either-0.436
😣-0.426